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Question: Where do I look next!?
Patrick Moriarty has been a really hard one to find any information on!. I have an ancestry!.com and nehgs!.org membership and haven't been able to find anything on him before his 1899 death record!. The image isn't available for the death record so, I am looking for his parents names and his birthdate!.
Here is what I know;
Death Record - Patrick Moriarty from 1899 in Agawam, Hampden Co!., MA!. According to www!.nehgs!.org it is vol!. 493, p!.70
Patrick Moriarty b!. in Ireland d!. 1899 m!. Mary Murphy b!. in Ireland d!. 1908!.
Children were all born in Agawam, MA
John James b!. 1870 d!.1927 Toronto, Ontario - moved to Canada married and had children (we have his death record but, no record of his birth)
Catherine b!. 1871 d!. 1892 - never married or had children
Timothy b!. 1872 d!. 1878 - never married or had children
Patrick J b!. 1876 d!. 1903 - married Annie Hartford d!. 1900!. He commited suicide in 1903 leaving their daughter Catherine Agnes b!. 1897!.
Catherine went to live with her maternal Aunt Theresa Streeter!. She married and had to children Dorothy Lynch b!. 1917 and Thomas Lynch b!. 1919 - no record of who she married or when!.
Mary T!. b!. 1877 - married 1908 John William Bruso and had one child born in 1910 Mary Alicia Bruso m!. John F!. Quinn
We know that Patrick worked for the Boston and Albany RailRoad!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I think your best bet at this stage is to try to find a marriage for Patrick and Mary!. It's possible they married before they left Ireland and started their family once settled in the US!. On that assumption, I'd suggest you look for a marriage from 1864!. Conveniently, that is the year civil registration of marriages started for all religious denominations in Ireland!.
The GRO in Ireland will do a search for you over a five year period for 6Euros!. You can find an application form at
http://www!.groireland!.ie!.
Fill it in with the names of bride and groom and ask that they search the marriage index for the five years 1864 to 1869!. They will charge you 4Euros if they cannot find the entry!. If they find it, they'll send you a photocopy of the marriage certificate within six weeks!.
An Irish marriage certificate will provide you with the name of the townland where bride and groom were living prior to the wedding, and the names and occupations of their fathers!. Armed with this information you can really start to delve into your Irish ancestry!. This website has lots of helpful advice for taking that further:
http://www!.irish-genealogy-toolkit!.com!.
If the GRO in Ireland can't find a marriage you have two choices!. Firstly you could continue searching Irish records as they come online!. This is happening on a continual basis now!. One site you might like to keep an eye on is:
http://www!.brsgenealogy!.ie
which is very slowly digitising and placing online millions of church records!. I've already searched for a Patrick Moriarty marriage -- no joy at present but that doesn't mean it won't ever appear! Just keep looking!. It's free to search but there's a 5 Euros charge to download individual entries (so it can work out pricey, if you're not careful or lucky!)!.
The second option is to consider another possibility: that Patrick and Mary met and married after emigrating to the US!. If that's the case, you won't be able to take your Irish research further based on the scant information you currently have!. You'll need to search US immigration/naturalisation records!.
Good luck with your research!.
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